Lyr Req: Reverend Mr. Black

Subject: RE: LYR REQ/Tune ADD: Rev. Mr Black
From: Gene
Date: 16 Nov 00 - 09:53 PM

THE REVEREND MR BLACK

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Subject: Lyr Add: THE REVEREND MR. BLACK ^^
From: Gene
Date: 16 Nov 00 - 09:47 PM

THE REVEREND MR. BLACK
Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller, Billy Edd Wheeler

(Spoken)
He rode easy in the saddle He was tall and lean
And at first you'd a-thought nothing but a streak of mean
could make a man look so down right strong
but one look in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong
He was a mountain of a man and I want you to know
He could preach hot hell or freezin' snow
He carried a Bible in a canvas sack
And folks just called him The Reverend Mr. Black
He was poor as a beggar, but he rode like a king
Sometimes in the evening I'd hear him sing:

Chorus:
I gotta walk that lonesome valley
I got to walk it by myself
Oh nobody else can walk it for me
I got to walk it by myself

(Spoken)
If ever I could have thought this man in black
was soft and had any yellow up his back
I gave that notion up the day
a lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray
Yeah, he kicked open the meeting house door
and he cussed everybody up and down the floor!
Then, when things got quiet in the place
he walked up and cussed in the preacher's face!
He hit that Reverend like a kick of a mule
and to my way of thinkin' it took a real fool
to turn the other face to that lumber jack
but that's what he did, The Reverend Mr. Black
He stood like a rock, a man among men
and he let that lumberjack hit him again
and then with a voice as quiet as could be
he cut him down like a big oak tree when he said:

Chorus

(Spoken)
It's been many years since we had to part
and I guess I learned his ways by heart
I can still hear his sermon's ring
down in the valley where he used to sing
I followed him, yes, sir, and I don't regret it
and I hope I will always be a credit
to his memory 'cause I want you to understand
The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man!

Chorus

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Subject: LYR REQ/Tune ADD: Rev. Mr Black
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 16 Nov 00 - 12:19 AM

OK, OK so I'm lazy - I'm sending off a MIDI t0 MMario with a four part harmony (very churchy) but I haven't submitted the drawling narrative. I figured that Gene or someone could produce it within 5 minutes anyway and it would take me 10 times longer than that to type it. Regards, John

PS It may not be the world's most exciting harmony arrangement, but it is quite easy to learn the parts in there are any budding harmonists out there. I'm trying to notate harmony parts to MIDIs wherever I can (occasionally).